Chicken Soup for the Cinephile’s Soul
An unforgettable character and performance. Heartwarming, introspective, and occasionally devastating. A reminder of lessons we’ve already learned but often forget. And a beautiful ending. I teared up once or twice.
In Lynch’s other projects, despite the deep darkness that exists, there is often a countervailing force of wholesome goodness — characters, dialogue, and ideas that are so purely positive they border on soap. Critics like Ebert often thought Lynch deployed these elements sarcastically, as…